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Campagna

[kam-pahn-yuh, kuhm-; It. kahm-pah-nyah]

Cam·pa·gna

[kam-pahn-yuh, kuhm-; It. kahm-pah-nyah]
noun, plural -pa·gne [-pahn-yey; It. -pah-nye] for 2.
1.
a low plain surrounding the city of Rome, Italy.
2.
(lowercase) any flat open plain; champaign.

Origin:
< Italian; see campaign
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Campagna is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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campagna (kæmˈpɑːnjə)
 
n
another word for champaign

Campagna (kæmˈpɑːnjə)
 
n
Also called: Campagna di Roma a low-lying plain surrounding Rome, Italy: once fertile, it deteriorated to malarial marshes; but has since been reclaimed. Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles)

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